Omyo Cho, installation view in Wooson Gallery’s booth at Art Basel, 2024. ©Wooson Gallery
Global art platforms Artsy and ARTnews have selected Wooson Gallery’s solo booth by artist Omyo Cho as one of the 10 best booths at this year’s Art Basel.
This year’s Art Basel, which concluded on June 16, featured 285 galleries from 40 countries and regions, of which Gallery Hyundai, Kukje Gallery, and Wooson Gallery were the only Korean galleries. Participating in Art Basel for the first time since its opening, Wooson Gallery exclusively presented Omyo Cho in the Statements sector for emerging artists.
Born in 1984, Omyo Cho has been working in Korea since graduating from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has been working on the theme of ‘memory transfer between others’ through literary imaginings of the past, present, and future, narrating our lives through form and material.
Her work at Art Basel is based on a science fiction imaginary in which sea snails become the inheritors of the world after the extinction of the human race. The narrative was inspired by a series of real experiments in which biologists were able to extract memories from the mollusks.
The artist’s futuristic imagination of the ‘memory transference,’ symbolized by a sea snail with a glass body and stainless steel legs, has garnered much attention from the global art press at Art Basel.
